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by timthorn 3y ago
The UK education system has the concept of "Progress 8" aka P8. It's somewhat controversial but tries to assess the progress a school makes with students between the ages of 12-16, compared to "baseline" - or the av
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Yes, making fax machines work over VoIP was important in the early days. The G.711 codec was designed to support endpoints that needed a full 64kbps datapath.
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Labour did introduce ID cards. It was one of the first acts of the Cameron government to scrap it.
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Check out "The Battle of the Beams" by Tom Whipple, Science Editor of the Times, and whose grandparents were part of the development story. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442430/the-battle-of-the-bea...
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> They regained prominence in World War II because of their ability to operate at microwave frequencies I'd always understood the WWII relationship with cats whiskers to be due to PoWs making radios from materials that they had acce
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That's just CDE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment
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Many happy hours playing XRisk and XPilot at work 25 years ago :)
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Richard Hammond presented Engineering Connections recently. Not quite James Burke but I'll take what I can get.
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The teaching unions have pretty broad coverage, even more so when Yes PM was written.
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> And you needed it in your head, because finding the information you needed in the massive single document man file reference was a pain That's what the O'Reilly books were for, especially the Nutshell series.
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AI girlfriend ‘told crossbow intruder to kill Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle’(telegraph.co.uk)
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With trains that carry cars.
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A native of England might not get that either
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Application deep-dive into the AWS Graviton3E-based Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instance(aws.amazon.com)
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From the article: > The range of vehicles can be anything from a Smithfield meat cart to old wagons, steam engines, and buses to the very latest in electric cars and lorries. It’s a very eclectic mix.
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Reel to Reel (The Cambridge University Tape Recording Society)(magazine.alumni.cam.ac.uk)
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> Even worse is the new trend of web pages optimizing for page load time I don't disagree with your example, but optimising for page load time is as old as the graphical Web.
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My understanding is that the archive isn't being disposed of, but will be going into the Science Museum long term storage. The photographs are not intended as a replacement for the collections.
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Some more detail: https://simpleflying.com/pan-am-707-raf-northolt/
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The occasional Blue Peter features where they showed the production process and visited the various backstage locations at TVC were always my favourites. I'm now a member of the RTS and get to attend various events about how particular
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An incomplete history of London’s television studios(tvstudiohistory.co.uk)
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Open innovation: Licensing and access to Oak National Academy's new resources(thenational.academy)
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The Times view on hobby engineers: In Praise of Tinkering(thetimes.co.uk)
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...Happisburgh
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The End of Online Privacy(spiked-online.com)
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Fulham proposing AI-powered cameras that will record drivers who break rules(telegraph.co.uk)
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I've got one too - the sound of typing on it is really evocative, and I managed to get a couple of spare keyboards that I keep meaning to hook to a USB HID interface.
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Well, the leader of Canterbury Council lost his seat in last week's election. I don't think the plans were popular with the local population.
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I'm somewhat impressed with the BBC's OB capability to go from the Coronation coverage (which will have been done in conjunction with the other broadcasters) to the Coronation concert and straight on to Eurovision.
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So please respond to the consultation. Q2 is literally asking for other uses of multiple SIMs that the policy wonks haven't thought about yet.

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